Games Contracts in Bedfordshire

Gaming
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Games 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.41% - -
As % of the General category 8.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
East of England median daily rate £336 £375 £688
% change year-on-year -10.33% -45.45% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £68.45 - -
25th Percentile £80.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £88.00 - -

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 169 141 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 72.22% 67.79% 59.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 81 50
10th Percentile £163 £313 £281
25th Percentile £363 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 1
10th Percentile £50.23 £30.56 -
25th Percentile £65.63 £47.81 -
Median hourly rate £86.25 £56.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% +2.86% -8.33%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year +3.15% +115.12% -10.55%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Bedfordshire

Games
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Games.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Games

Games
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Games.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Games

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in Bedfordshire

Games
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leighton Buzzard - 8 - -
Luton - 7 £60 - 3
Games
East of England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) IBM Domino
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) Ethernet
General
1 7 (46.67%) Electronics
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Firmware Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Algorithms
1 7 (46.67%) FPGA
1 7 (46.67%) PCIe
1 7 (46.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Android
1 8 (53.33%) Mac OS
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
2 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (46.67%) Cryptography
2 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
2 7 (46.67%) Physics
2 7 (46.67%) UVM
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) MATLAB
2 7 (46.67%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (46.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
1 7 (46.67%) HNC
1 7 (46.67%) HND
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (53.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
1 8 (53.33%) Meraki
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) Splunk
2 7 (46.67%) Actel
2 7 (46.67%) Altera
2 7 (46.67%) Intel
2 7 (46.67%) Microsemi
2 7 (46.67%) Xilinx